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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Yael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Yael” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Yael” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Yael” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Yael” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Yael” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Yael” by birth year

This chart shows how “Yael” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1967 20 0.000005891 20 100%
1968 41 0.000012136 41 100%
1969 29 0.000008345 29 100%
1970 22 0.0000061 22 100%
1971 27 0.000007866 27 100%
1972 30 0.000009545 30 100%
1973 27 0.00000895 27 100%
1974 33 0.000010855 33 100%
1975 34 0.000011261 34 100%
1976 42 0.000013842 42 100%
1977 55 0.000017315 55 100%
1978 51 0.000016069 51 100%
1979 38 0.000011422 38 100%
1980 45 0.000013064 45 100%
1981 44 0.000012719 44 100%
1982 57 0.000016249 57 100%
1983 56 0.000016169 56 100%
1984 62 0.000017771 57 5 84%
1985 41 0.000011487 41 100%
1986 61 0.000017149 61 100%
1987 61 0.000016918 52 9 70%
1988 57 0.000015426 57 100%
1989 59 0.000015347 52 7 76%
1990 63 0.000015939 56 7 78%
1991 67 0.0000172 67 100%
1992 62 0.00001614 62 100%
1993 58 0.000015383 58 100%
1994 56 0.000015063 45 11 61%
1995 48 0.000013107 48 100%
1996 84 0.000023031 71 13 69%
1997 77 0.000021237 62 15 61%
1998 92 0.000025012 67 25 46%
1999 97 0.00002626 69 28 42%
2000 115 0.000030424 87 28 51%
2001 121 0.000032324 89 32 47%
2002 149 0.000039858 85 64 14%
2003 191 0.000050233 80 111 -16%
2004 231 0.000060457 92 139 -20%
2005 234 0.000060861 75 159 -36%
2006 269 0.000067995 89 180 -34%
2007 298 0.000074543 86 212 -42%
2008 320 0.000081411 94 226 -41%
2009 330 0.000086383 107 223 -35%
2010 334 0.000090374 115 219 -31%
2011 286 0.000078189 107 179 -25%
2012 346 0.000094604 108 238 -38%
2013 344 0.000094359 101 243 -41%
2014 346 0.000093353 111 235 -36%
2015 285 0.000077008 107 178 -25%
2016 308 0.000083953 126 182 -18%
2017 316 0.000088362 119 197 -25%
2018 331 0.000094144 106 225 -36%
2019 338 0.00009738 116 222 -31%
2020 343 0.000102677 137 206 -20%
2021 348 0.000102717 137 211 -21%
2022 391 0.000115573 166 225 -15%
2023 470 0.000141943 142 328 -40%
2024 448 0.000134595 131 317 -42%

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